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Fulton county libraries offering county-wide book club

Fulton County Library has launched the 2nd Annual, One Book, One Read, a county-wide book club with the aim of getting as many people as possible across Fulton reading, talking about and engaging with the same book. (Courtesy Fulton County Library)

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Fulton County Library has launched the 2nd Annual, One Book, One Read, a county-wide book club with the aim of getting as many people as possible across Fulton reading, talking about and engaging with the same book. (Courtesy Fulton County Library)
By Karen Huppertz for the AJC
June 17, 2023

Fulton County Library has launched the 2nd Annual, One Book, One Read, a county-wide book club with the aim of getting as many people as possible across Fulton reading, talking about and engaging with the same book.

The program kicked off June 1 with “The Personal Librarian” by Victoria Christopher Murphy and Marie Benedict. According to a FCL statement, “It’s the remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and the curator of The Morgan Library who was secretly passing as a white woman.”

The event, which hopes to promote conversations, community building and literacy, will culminate with an in-person visit with both authors at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Central Library in Downtown Atlanta. Register: www.fulcolibrary.org/OBOR.

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